Anne Laure Riesling 2018
The gorgeous nose of lime and citrus. The dry palate shows some attractive notes of white flowers.
Ansgar Clusserath Riesling 2019
This is Mosel Riesling with a difference, Feinherb is neither dry or sweet but (transliterated) featherweight. I describe these wines as “just sweet enough” and this one is rich and creamy with tropical fruit, citrus and acid for days.
ORGANIC
Aurum Dry Riesling 2018
This southern star smashes through the palate with green apple and quartz-powder, mineral-driven mouthfeel that lingers long and will send your saliva glands into overload. The citrus intensity is one thing, but the honeysuckle and hints of biscuit really add to the complexity of this wine in the mouth.
ORGANIC / BIODYNAMIC / NATURAL
Greystone Organic Pétillant Naturel 2020
Attractive and flavoursome with a natural effervescence. The palate is fresh and the finish is long. Fresh, dry and with a persistent and fine mousse.
“Broad, textural sparkling wine that’s more vinous than fruity with ginger-like lees, apricot blossom and a suggestion of mineral character” – Bob Campbell MW ( writing about the 2019 Petillant Naturel )
La Monella Bianco 2019
A playfully bad girl, un-conforming, wild and natural, La Monella is an organic natural white blend of Pinot Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc and Riesling. Naturally fermented, and left in old oak french barrels for 7 months, the wine was bottled without filtration or fining. A delicious, generous wine offering tropical and white flower notes underpinned by a lovely citrus acidity.
ORGANIC / BIODYNAMIC / NATURAL
Marcobarba Barbabianca 2019
The wine sees a few days on skins which gives it a lovely texture. Vibrant lemon aromatics with tangerine acidity, hay and minerality. It’s a perfect white for the aperitif.
ORGANIC / BIODYNAMIC / NATURAL
Marto Weiss 2019
A fruit salad of varietals are co-fermented with indigenous yeasts to create this zesty white wine. This blended white, yet hazy yellow in the glass is juicy, frisky and fresh to taste. Enjoy the scents of just ripe stone fruit, green mango, freshly cut grass and wet herbs. Truly raw wine for natural wine lovers.
ORGANIC / BIODYNAMIC / NATURAL / NO SO2 ADDED
Milan Nestarec Forks and Knives White 2018
This uncharacteristically dark coloured white cuvee, brings low-medium acidity to this peach and melon infusion. A blend of Neuburg, Sauvignon Blanc, Traminer, Pálava & Riesling with just a short time on the skins, this cloudy genius has the qualities of a poolside cocktail, so juicy and delicious it captures you from the first sip.
ORGANIC / BIODYNAMIC / NATURAL / NO SO2 ADDED
Mountford Estate Hommage A l’Alsace 2015
Rich with complex stonefruit, fruit salad, manuka honey and minerals that attack your senses upon first glace. Bringing together four noble varieties of Alsace; Gewürztraminer, Muscat, Pinot Gris and Riesling. This enriching medium bodied integration will both excite and invigorate with a beautiful balance of acidity and sweetness.
Norman Hardie Riesling 2016
Beautiful balance, but also a nice depth of flavour. There is a slight funkiness to the nose that is layered over apple and citrus. There is a slight sweetness on the mid palate but it is met with nicely balanced acidity.
Teusner Empress Riesling 2021
This Riesling shows great fruit purity, and once your palate negotiates the initial pure citrus flavours, the wine glides across the mid-palate with an energetic gait showing hints of mineral ‘wet slate’, orange blossom, white flowers and talc.
Vandal Gonzo Militia Blend 2021
Vandal Wines was set up by three unnamed, masked Marlborough winemakers as an escape from the restrictions of their day jobs. The Gonzo Militia is a field blend, picked together on the same day and vinified together. The blend is unusual to say the least 20% Viognier, 20% Pinot Noir, 20% Pinot Gris, 15% Riesling, 15% Syrah, 5% Chardonnay, 2.5% Tempranillo and 2.5% Muscat, sourced from a single site in Marlborough’s Southern Valleys region. After pressing 50% is macerated on its skins for 24 hours, the whole is fermented in neutral French oak barrels using the natural yeasts and undergoes malolactic fermentation. The wine then spends 6 months on its lees with battonage, lees stirring, before bottling un-fined and un-filtered. The wine has delicate pink hue to its golden colour with a slight haze due to the lack of fining and filtration. The flavour is wild with a creamy mouth full of peach, plums with lemony, green apple acidity and nutty notes from the casks. A complex and fascinating break from the norm.